A total of 201 health facilities in the department of Lima were equipped with internet connection to be able to offer telehealth services to the population.
The Lima provinces of Barranca, Cajatambo, Canta, Cañete, Huaral, Huarochirí, Huaura, Oyón and Yauyos, will now have health centers with internet access, through the broadband project that will benefit more than 200 thousand people in the region.
Thanks to this advance, health personnel in the more than 200 hospitals will be able to develop telemedicine services and provide specialized care at a distance to avoid traveling from remote communities to urban centers.
In addition, a connectivity test was carried out, with the first inter-consultation between two medical centers in different parts of the department of Lima, the Puente Auco health center in the province of Yauyos, and the Pedro maternal and child health center between two Abraham Lopez Guillen, in the district of San Antonio in the province of Cañete.
This test allowed the remote connection between a specialist in obstetrics and a gynecologist to provide treatment to a 32-year-old pregnant woman at 18 weeks of gestation.
The Peruvian government, through the National Telecommunications Program (Pronatel), seeks to deploy more than 1,790 km of fiber optics in the region. It has an investment of more than 273 million soles.
